Performa 5200

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> BootX will load the kernel in the first contiguous region in memory it
> can find, but that means that we have to copy the exception vectors to 0,
> adjust them so they call correctly the kernel routines in the real base
> of the kernel (which will not be 0 on some machines), and we'll have
> virt_to_phys and co be non-constant. I read an interesting suggestion
> some time ago of reserving a register during kernel compile with gcc and
> using this register to store the real base of the kernel. Modules will
> not be compatible, but that's not a real issue for now.
> I don't know how the APUS code works, but I heard it is similar.

The latest APUS patches use a fixup section and code to adjust KERNELBASE after
boot up.

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven at cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium


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